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Am I a Man or Am I a Muppet?

[transfemoid]

Talking to myself again as scheduled. Love what I have to say btw

[goldensunset]

i’m really sorry about my behavior. you see, growing up, my family- *remembers blaming all my problems on other people is really annoying and unhealthy* i mean. i am responsible for all the evils of this world and i bear sins like the sky bears the stars

[innerchildabortionclinic]

evil therapist: to ground yourself, look around, name 5 things you can kill, and 4 things you can at least maim

[saltybutsad]

big fan of stobotnik art that looks like this

[thekidsfromyestergay]

This was on a post about how it's ignorant and privileged to wear headphones in public and I fear its already become a part of my vocabulary. Must everything harbor a moral failure.

[cruel-hiraeth]

call him bubonic the way he plagues me

[brandneweyescd]

they were right btw. you have to dig yourself out of your grave over and over again

[lucat13]

i call this one "son your mother and i are getting a divorce"

[government-cy-op]

I love being on Tumblr and no other social media because it makes me think I know what the rest of the Internet is talking about when really I have no idea. I go into school today thinking "oh boy can't wait to talk to all my friends about the dangerous crow boy who's job it is to destroy plastic" and then everyone's talking about the rapture??? The fuck???

[hyper-alice]

Shoutout to this comment thread under The Trail To Oregon

[hyper-alice]

Is this anything

[literallymydeath]

listening to this while reading fics goes crazy

NPR - A Look at How Fan Fiction is Changing Publishing and Reading

it's only 6 minutes!

@cal-daisies-and-briars mention!

[autumn0689]

“I asked chat gpt.” “I asked grok.” well I asked Mr. Davidson and he said he wanted to be choked by his wife while he jerked off

[kineticpenguin]

At the risk of sounding anti-intellectual, I think that college should be free and also not a requirement for employment outside of highly specialized career fields

[kineticpenguin]

At the risk of sounding like an effete intellectual, I do actually think you should be allowed to just take college courses indefinitely

[yourunderwaterskies]

technically you can, if you don't care about degrees.

Free Harvard courses. Free Courses from Stanford. Free Courses from MIT. Free courses from Yale. Free courses from Princeton.

Free courses on Coursera.

Free Courses on EDx Free Courses on Alison

For paid, there's The Great Courses+/Wonderium. 20$ a month for unlimited courses.

When searching, the phrases you're looking for are Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), or you can do a general search of say, "free online college courses." Oh, and so you don't get surprised like I did, have an avoid: Hillsdale College is a conservative Christian site and not a valid MOOC place. Sign up with them and you will get things like THIS IS WHY THE LEFT IS TURNING YOUR KIDS TRANS AND GAY in your inbox.

[aloeverawrites]

@yourunderwaterskies I wanted to say thank you so much for adding these links, seriously, they've been life-changingly helpful to me-

And I also wanted to mention that humanitarian organisations have free courses too, like the Red Cross on international humanitarian law.

Humanity in War

Learn more about the Red Cross International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Program to train policy professionals, government officials, academics,

Kaya

Kaya is a free humanitarian learning platform which offers hundreds of training opportunities across a range of key topics, including the hu

[stuckinapril]

[softwaring]

[meneldil-istarendilye]

[rederiswrites]

Quietly losing my mind over the fact that Elon Musk has straight up orchestrated a coup of our executive branch and like....I don't even know what, if any, system we have in place to fix this. Like... He's just taken control of the money and locked out the actual appointed officials. What the fuck.

[rederiswrites]

Nazis are taking over my government, and like, not even just the Nazis we fucking elected! And I'm...making hamburgers? Because somebody has to make dinner? I just feel completely unhinged.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I think that's how random civillians generally feel in these situations. Someone's gotta make dinner.

[lizardlicks]

If you're wondering, there is plenty to be done about it, and plenty being done about it already, even if it's not happening instantly in a way you can perceive.

Is Somebody Doing Something?!

Yes. Let me break it down for you.

[rederiswrites]

Reblogging because this is an excellent article that both tells you about some of what's being done and breaks it down in a way that will help you understand and think about future action. Please read!

[totallytemporary101]

New Years goal: be active.

Participate. Reply. Comment. Share stories with strangers. Be active in whatever space you decide to own as a part of your experience.

Passivity permits you to be acted on; you are giving up power in favor of easy consumption. It enables an inner monologue of powerlessness and self victimisation.

The world is so big and wide and diverse, for all that the internet and media makes it all seem so small and contained and simplistic. There is and should always be space for every person to participate, to be active and alive and fulfilled in whatever purpose they’ve ascribed to. It’s okay to make your own space, build on it, and take it up fully and wholly, because like love, it is not a finite resource and community is a nebulous, living, shifting collective of people and thoughts and ideas.

I want to do things that are crazy and fun and memorable this year. They don’t have to last forever or make any great impact on anyone or anything, but at least I can say that I was here and I did something for the fun of it, because it made me laugh, because I wanted to, because it was important, even just because.

I am tired of trying to ride out a storm that won’t pass. Fear is not my master. I refuse to live any longer in isolation of my own making.

My goal for this year is to be active. This is my reminder to myself.

Anyway that’s me thought-rant and resolution for 2025. Gimme Unus Annus vibes, ldk

[literallymydeath]

This really spoke to me, so I think I'm gonna start actually posting things. Not just here but on any app. I need to stop being afraid of what other people will think and start caring more about my say in my own life.

"I wanna contribute to the chaos, I don't want to watch and then complain." - The Front Bottoms, 'Twin Sized Mattress'